BARBARA STRASEN
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Artist Statement
I am a visual artist whose work is about finding beauty and harmony in the turbulence and complexity of apparently unrelated and contradictory images. My perennial focus is on finding unexpected visual connections between seemingly unlike images and ideas, and to discover new relationships between them. My art deals with the realization that every memory contains multiple perceptions, which layer themselves in some form of priority. Memories do not remain constant, but are the result of a continuing process of perception and re-perception, the mind constantly trying to reconcile the sublime with the horrific, the trivial with the vital. I have always been driven to make art that comments upon and re-presents these ideas, seeking to reveal the interconnectedness of all things. Over time have taken different approaches to manifesting this vision, pushing boundaries of painting, photography and printmaking, and exploring other media to create multi-image works that reflect upon these complexities. My original artistic medium was painting, which has expanded to include digital printing, installations, and lenticular artworks. |
RESUME
EDUCATION
MFA University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
BFA Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Yale Summer School of Art Fellowship, Norfolk, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Barbara Strasen: New, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2019 Everything Else: Recent Paintings by Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery LA
2019 Barbara Strasen: On Spec, Ethos Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
2017 Either And Or: New Paintings by Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Juxtapose: Paintings by Barbara Strasen, Ethos Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
2015 Layer by Layer, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2014 Solo Exhibition, TandM Art, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Flow and Glimpse, Los Angeles Airport Terminal 2, commissioned by Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airports
2012 All Manner Of Things: New work by Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2012 Layering: The Art Of Luisa Mesa And Barbara Strasen, Institute for Genetic Medicine Gallery, USC, Los Angeles
2012 Fairy Tales, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2012 Barbara Strasen, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2012 Jaggedart, London, UK
2010 Painted Lenticulars and Mylars, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Barbara Strasen, Building 98; Marfa, TX
2007 Individual Artist Project at London Art Fair, represented by Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2007 Colburn School of Music, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Commission for a lightwall lenticular installation in Austin, TX
2007 Pulse Art Fair, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
2006 Barbara Strasen, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY.
2006 Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Party Animals: Painted Lenticulars, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Barbara Strasen, Archeus Fine Art, London, U.K.
2004 Barbara Strasen, Discovery Museum; Bridgeport, CT
2004 SuperMegaMultiplex-o-rama: Barbara Strasen, Ambrosino Gallery; Miami, FL
2003 PickleSubSharkWeightMonkeySaucer, Lenticular installation at Pfizer Corp.,
2003 Sandwich, U. K. (Jan.-Mar. 2003) and Walton Oaks, U. K. (Apr.-Jun., 2003)
2002 Multiplex, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2001 Barbara Strasen, Institute For Genetic Medicine, Univ. of Southern California, LA
2001 Barbara Strasen, Hiromi Gallery, Bergamot Station; Santa Monica
1999 Barbara Strasen Claudia Carr Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Barbara Strasen, Galerie Neue Anstandigkeit, Berlin, Germany
1999 Barbara Strasen, Adamar Fine Art, Miami, FL
1999 Barbara Strasen, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
1998 Barbara Strasen, Galeria Soloblu, Milan, Italy
1998 Layers Of Perception, Budapest Galerie Budapest, Hungary
1997 Barbara Strasen, Forum Gallery, San Diego, CA
1996 Barbara Strasen, curated by Jay Belloli, Angel's Gate Cultural Center, LA, CA
1995 Barbara Strasen: Recent Work, L. A. Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Barbara Strasen, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Barbara Strasen, R&B Management Corporation, curated by Jillian Coldiron Fine Art, LA
1993 Paintings by Barbara Strasen, Lynn Crandall Art Services, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen,
Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami FL
1992 Recent Paintings, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
1991 A Proscenium Vision: Recent Paintings, D. P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, CA
1990 Barbara Strasen, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1990 Now and Then, Two window installations, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
1990 Contemporary Bestiary, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
1990 Barbara Strasen, Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Barbara Strasen: Masks, Zem Zwaite Gsicht Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1988 Barbara Strasen, Gallery Store, San Diego, CA
1986 Barbara Strasen, James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Barbara Strasen, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Barbara Strasen, International Women’s Center, San Diego, CA
1984 Barbara Strasen, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada
1983 Internal/External: Works by Barbara Strasen, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Marine Metaphors: The Ocean Dioramas of Barbara Strasen, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA
1982 Barbara Strasen, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA
1981 Barbara Strasen, Wooster College, Wooster, OH
1980 Ecosystem Allegories, Individual Project Installation, P.S. 1, New York, NY
1980 Desert Progression, Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Barbara Strasen, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Barbara Strasen: 3-D Paintings, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Layer Upon Layer, organized by Susanna Meiers, Curator of exhibitions El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2019 On The Rocks, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2019 Ethos Contemporary at Bistengo, Irvine, CA
2017 CoLA 20, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Tell Me a Story, La Quinta Museum; La Quinta, CA
2016 On The Edge, South Bay Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA,
2015 City of Los Angeles Fellowship Award Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Collector’s Circle Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2014 A Tall Tale: Folk, Fantasy & Fear in Art of the Fairy Tale, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York
2014 Collector's Circle Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2013 Cityscape III, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Colorful Antics, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 The Cityscape Show II, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Miami Red Dot Art Fair, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
2009 London Art Fair, Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2009 A Painter’s Dilemma, exhibitions and symposium, Stedman Art Gallery and Hopkins Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2008 Summer Group Show, Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2008 Stimulating Consumption, Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
2008 London Art Fair, represented by Jaggedart, London
2008 Art Now Fair Miami Beach, reprented by George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 L.A. Art Show, represented by George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Installation 816, Austin, TX
2008 Immigration: A Transfusion For The Body Politic, Barbara Strasen and Luis Moreno;
2008 IGM Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2008 Digital Art L.A., curated by Los Angeles Museum Of Art chief Curator Howard Fox
2007 L. A. Art Fair, represented by George Billis Gallery L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2006 Summer Dreaming, Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2007 Pulse Art Fair Miami, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 Bridge Art Fair Miami, represented by Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2005 Basel/Miami Art Fair, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
2005 Group Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Palm Beach Art Fair, represented by Archeus Fine Art, London, U.K.
2005 London Art Fair, represented by Archeus Fine Art, London, U.K.
2005 MiArt Contemporanea, Contemporary Art Fair, Milan, Italy
2005 Truth & Beauty, Q Gallery, Derby, U.K.
2004 Quiet, Isn’t It?, Archeus Fine Art, London
2004 Draw/Drawing, London Biennale 2004, London
2004 Basel/Miami Art Fair, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
2003 Art Basel/ Miami, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 Truth & Beauty, organized by Wellcome Trust, touring schedule: Yard Gallery,
Nottingham, UK; Galeria Palacio, Porto, Portugal; Groningen University,
2003 Netherlands; Center For Life Sciences, Newcastle, UK
2003 Abstracting the Domestic Landscape, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
2003 About Face, El Camino College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Art Basel/ Miami, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 Accumulations, Islip Museum Of Art, Islip, NY
2002 Truth&Beauty, TwoTen Gallery, Wellcome Trust, London (through Mar. 21, 2003)
2002 Relationships, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2001 International Drawings, Six Artists, M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, New York
2001 Four Painters, Jernigan Wicker Gallery, San Francisco
2000 Delicate Tissue, organized by Jennifer Kotter for M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, NY
2000 The DNC Show, organized by Davis and Davis for Democratic National Headquarters, Los Angeles
2000 Happy Birthday Johannes, Gutenberg Pavillion, Mainz, Germany
2000 HMO/SUV/IPO, projection exhibition organized by Sidestreet Projects, Los Angeles
1999 Brust-Lust-Frust, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
1999 As Long As There Is Death, There Is Hope, FlashArt Museum, Trevi, Italy
1998 Contempo-Italianate, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1998 Five Artists, Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 House Party, Long Beach Museum Of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997 Generations, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1997 New Art Los Angeles, organized by Mary-Kay Lombino, Coast Federal Bank, Los Angeles
1997 Drive-Out Festival, Rome
1997 In Response, Marc Arranaga Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1996 Light Abberations, organized by Ann Tucker, University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1996 Codpiece, organized by Meg Linton, Griffin Linton Gallery, Venice, CA
1996 Alarm: Public and Private Security, former Lincoln Heights Jail, Los Angeles, CA
1996 About Face, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Collective Memory: Barbara Strasen and Nancy Webber, curated by Suzanna Meiers,
El Camino College, Torrance, CA
1995 People, Places, Things, Primary Objects Gallery, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
1995 Anniversary Exhibition, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 On Site At The Gate, (first prize), juried by Jay Belloli, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1994 The Green Show, curated by Wendy Adest, The Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Barbara Strasen and Roger Campbell, curated by Lynn Crandall, Art in the Workplace
1994 Gallery Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Cups, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Three Artists, South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
1993 Four of L.A.’s Best, L. A. Festival, Off the Beaten Path
1993 Reshaping L.A, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1992 The Living Object: The Art Collection of Ellen H. Johnson, Allen Memorial Art Museum,
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1989 Thick and Thin: Photographically Inspired Paintings, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
1988 Gallery Group, James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Animal Art: The Animal as a Conveyor and Medium of Art Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
1987 About Time, Islip Art Museum, Islip, Long Island, NY
1987 Group Show, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 To the Astonishing Horizon, curated by Peter Frank, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1984 New Approaches to Landscape, curated by Peter Frank, ne Penn Plaza, New York
1982 Choice: Four Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1980 U.S.A. Women Artists, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1980 System, Inquiry, Translation, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Dialogue/Discourse/Research, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1978 Artists Investigate the Environment, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
1978 Some San Diego Artists, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Group Show of Gallery Artists, Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Seascape/Landscape, Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Faculty Show, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1975 Biennal of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
REVIEWS
2000 Delicate Tissue at M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, Kim Levin, Village Voice, July 13 issue
1999 Barbara Strasen at Santa Ana College, ArtScene, April issue
1998 Contempo-Italianate: William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, November 13,
1998 Peter Frank, Los Angeles Weekly, November 13
1997 Layers On Layers: Barbara Strasen, Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union Tribune, November 27, 1997
1996 Solo Series: Works by Barbara Strasen, Marie Thiebault, and Kathryn Tubbs, Peter Frank, Long Beach Press-Telegram, March 13, 1996
1992 Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen,
Helen Kohen, Miami Herald, November 14, 1992
1991 A Procenium Vision: Recent Paintings by Barbara Strasen at D. P. Fong Gallery, Dorothy Burkhart, San Jose Mercury News, June 16, 1991
1990 Barbara Strasen: Installation at Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Dagblad, Eindhoven NL March 12, 1990; Ruimte, Vol. 7 January 1990
1990 A Contemporary Bestiary at Islip Museum, New York Times, April 1, 1990, Newsday, April
1989 Thick and Thin: Photographically Inspired Paintings, LA Times, September 19, 1989
1988 Barbara Strasen: Perception as a Mirror at Gallery Store, Los Angeles Times, May 30.
1987 A Shared Excellence at Karl Bornstein Gallery, Judith Margolis, Artweek Magazine, August 22.
1987 About Time at Islip Museum, New York Times, March 1.
1987 About Time at Islip Museum, Newsday, February 2.
1986 Barbara Strasen at James Turcotte Gallery, Colin Gardner, LA Times, June 13.
1983 Desert Notes, A review of the book published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Co-Evolution Quarterly, Spring.
1982 Barbara Strasen at San Diego State University, Elise Miller, LA Times February 8.
1982 Richard Reilly, San Diego Union February 22.
1980 System, Inquiry, and Translation at Touchstone Gallery, Carrie Rickey, Village Voice, June 23.
1980 System, Inquiry, and Translation at Touchstone Gallery, Shelley Rice, Artforum, September.
1980 Desert Progression at Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, Artspeak, Vol. I No. 7 February 28.
1980 Dialogue/Discourse/Research, A review of the book published in conjunction with Dialogue/Discourse/Research at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
1980 Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol.X No. 6 January-February.
1979 Dialogue/Discourse/Research at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art:
Richard Armstrong, Artforum, January 1980
William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1979
Priscilla Prey, Santa Barbara News and Review, Sepember 9, 1979
Richard Ames, Santa Barbara News-Press, Sepember 6, 1979
1978 Some San Diego Artists at Newspace Gallery:
Artweek Magazine, July 15, 1978
Artists Investigate the Environment, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park:
Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1978
1977 Group Show at Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, David Bourdon, Village Voice, June 13, 1977
1975 Barbara Strasen at San Jose State University, Artweek Magazine, October 6.
1975 Barbara Strasen at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Arts Magazine, June.
LECTURES
On My Work, Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Art Walk Auction, Los Angeles, CA
TV Interview with Judy Marshall, psychologist, Cable TV, Los Angeles, CA
Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen,
Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami FL
On My Work and Its Sources, Lecture at Steirischer Herbst, Palais Attems, Graz, Austria
On My Work, Lecture at Society for Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Dailiness, Panel Discussion at A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
On My Work, Lecture at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Artists Investigate the Environment, Panel Discussion at Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Talk and slide presentation, California Institute for Women, Chino-Corona, CA
Talk and slide presentation, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
ARTICLES
2019 Meet Barbara Strasen. VoyageLA Magazine, February 5, 2019.
2006 Artpick: Barbara Strasen at Billis Gallery, by Peter Frank. Los Angeles Times, October 11,
2004 Artist Plays Multiplication Game with Pictures, by Roni Feinstein. Florida Sun Sentinel, February 18.
2003 Design for the Sylmar Library by Suzanne Stephens. Architectural Record, November.
2004 Tra Verita e Bellezza? by Lucy Lippard. Galileo Giornale, April.
2004 Vertauschte Zeitebenen: Die Kalifornierin Barbara Strasen in der Galerie Neue
1999 Anstandigkeit, von Christian Saehrendt, Berliner Zeitung, June 23.
1995 Barbara Strasen by Norma Squires. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, June.
1994 The Paintings of Barbara Strasen: Visual Metaphors for Leadership and the New Science by Lynn Crandall. Southern California Business Journal, Los Angeles, CA, November.
1994 Barbara Strasen at Space by Judith Hoffberg. ArtScene, Los Angeles, CA, June.
1994 Barbara Strasen by Suzanne Muchnic. Visions Quarterly, Los Angeles, CA, Summer.
1986 Intervista a Barbara Strasen: Il Deserto Dentro Di Noi? by Giorgio Fernando Borges. MODO Magazine, Milan, Italy, November.
1986 Oblique Portraits by Sanda Agalidi. Artweek Magazine, June 28.
1983 Barbara Strasen by Caril Dreyfuss McHugh. Arts Magazine, December.
1980 A Arte Sequndo As Norte-Americanas by Lucy Lippard, O Estato de Sao Paolo, October 26.
1976 Why a Separate Women's Art? by Lucy Lippard, Artes Visuales, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Spring.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Dilexi: A Gallery and Beyond by Laura Whitcomb, forward by Peter Frank, published by Norfolk Press.
2017 CoLA 20: Anniversary of the Los Angeles Master Artist Fellowship Program, book published by Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “All Manner Of Things” (2012), illustrated monograph with essays by Virginia Maksymowicz, Professor in the Department of Art & Art History, Franklin & Marshall College, and Blaise Tobia, Professor in the Department of Art & Art History, Wesphal College, Drexel University, Phila., PA
1987 Changing at Will Chapter of the book Animal Art: The Animal as a Conveyor and Medium of Art. Published by Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria.
1982 Women and Ecology Article published in HERESIES Issue 13, Winter 1982
1980 Desert Notes Art book published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1980
1975 The Immigrants, Article published in Journal of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, February.
CATALOGS
2015 Barbara Strasen, catalog of exhibition with essay, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
2015 City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship Award (C.o.L.A.), catalog and essays
2004 Truth & Beauty, catalog of exhibition, Palacio Nacional de Porto, Portugal.
2003 Truth & Beauty, catalog of exhibition, Wellcome Trust, London, U. K.
2000 The DNC Show, catalog of exhibition, Democratic National Headquarters, Los Angeles.
2000 Happy Birthday Johannes, catalog of exhibition at Gutenberg Pavillon, Mainz, Germany.
1999 Brust-Lust-Frust, catalog of exhibition at Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany.
1998 Contempo-Italianate: exhibition catalog, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount Univ, LA.
1992 The Collection of Ellen H. Johnson: Catalog of exhibition at Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH.
1992 Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen, Essay by Susan Muchnic, Catalog of exhibition by Barbara Strasen at Wolfson Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College.
1991 A Procenium Vision: Recent Paintings by Barbara Strasen, catalog of exhibition at D. P. Fong Gallery, San Jose CA.
1990 Three Installations: Karen Shaw, Mary Fish, Barbara Strasen, Catalog of Three Installations: Karen Shaw, Mary Fish, Barbara Strasen at Het Apollohuis, Published by Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, NL.
1990 Catalog of A Contemporary Bestiary at Islip Museum. Published by Islip Museum, Islip, NY.
1985 Catalog of Barbara Strasen at Fisher Gallery, by Marie DeAlcuaz, Published by University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
1985 Feministe Toi-meme, Feministe Quand-meme Catalog of the exhibition at La Chambre Blanche, Published by La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada.
1982 Barbara Strasen Catalog of Barbara Strasen at San Diego State by Dennis Komac. Published by San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
1980 American Women Artists 1980 Catalog of U.S.A. Women Artists at Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Published by Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1980 Out of the Studio and Into the World: Social and Ecological Issues in Contemporary Art, Article by William Spurlock about the exhibition Dialog/Discourse/Research National Arts Guide, Vol II No. 7, March-April.
1979 Dialogue/Discourse/Research, Catalog of the show, essay by William Spurlock, and additional works by the artists. Published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Wellcome Trust Art Collection, London, U.K.
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX
Pfizer Corporation, Wilton Oaks, U.K.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Islip Museum Of Art, Islip, NY
Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
UBS Bank Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Best Products Collection, Richmond, VA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL
Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
University Of California Medical Campus, San Francisco, CA
Loyola Marymount Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Grubb & Ellis Collection, Austin and Houston, TX
Dan Rosenthal & Associates, Berkeley, CA
Andrea Stern, New York, NY
Ann Katherin Bonher, Zurich, Switzerland
Ruth and Marvin Sachner, Miami Beach, Florida
Sotiris Kyriakou, London, U.K.
Claudia Carr, New York, NY
Roni Feinstein, Boca Raton, FL
Jenny Okun, Beverly Hills, CA
Ross Crowe, Los Angeles, CA
Evelyn Amis, Miami, FL
Sylvia Libedinsky, London, U.K., and Buenos Aires, Argentina
Linda and Richard Chandler, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Joni and Monte Gordon, Los Angeles, CA
Dorothy and Herman Vogel, New York, NY
Elaine Reichek and George Engel, New York, NY
Silvia Elias, London, U.K.
Donald R. Gentner, Palo Alto, CA
Tom Hinson, Cleveland, OH
Charlotte Burri, Basel, Switzerland
Melinda Holden, San Diego, CA
Vivian and Morton J. Hornick, New York, NY
Caryl Dreyfuss McHugh, New York, NY
Anina Louis, Los Angeles, CA
Bobby Greenfield, Los Angeles, CA
Dennis Collwood, Los Angeles, CA
Lynn and Dr. Edward Crandall, Los Angeles, CA
Linda Kasei, Los Angeles, CA
Judith Martin, Redondo Beach, CA
Katherine Harris, Los Angeles, CA
Sabina and Santiago Corral, London, U.K.
Colburn Music School Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Permanent lenticular lightwall installation, Grubb & Ellis Corporation, Austin, TX
Emily Okun, Los Angeles, CA
Marcela McGrane and Bill Vogel, Los Angeles, CA
Allison Sampson, Santa Monica, CA
Susan and Louis Samonsky, Ventura, CA
Wendy Kelley, Santa Monica, CA
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1975-80
Instructor of Visual Arts, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA, 1972-75
Instructor of Visual Arts, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, 1971-72
HONORS
Panelist, filmed for CoLA 20: Anniversary of the LA Master Artist Fellowship Program, 2017
Panelist, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Visual Art Division, 1999, 2000-2, 2017
Board of Directors, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA 1995-1997
Arts Recovery Grant, Los Angeles 1992-93
Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, 1976
Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California at San Diego, 1978
Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California at San Diego, 1977
Regents Creative Arts Grant, University of California at San Diego, 1977
Who's Who in the Arts, 1976, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art, 1968
CURATORIAL
Co-curator, with Mary-Kay Lombino (Assistant Curator, UCLA-Hammer Museum) of Contempo-Italianate, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, 1998
Art Within Art, organized by Barbara Strasen for Patrons of the Children, at The Box, Culver City, CA 1995
PUBLIC ART
2013-2017: Flow & Glimpse, commissioned lenticular installation at Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 2, ticketing and departure levels
2001-2003: Commission, awarded by L.A. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, for permanent, site-specific installation at new Sylmar Branch Library, Hodgetts and Fung, Architects; completion date: 2003
2000-2001 Selected for short list of artists for public art projects for Los Angeles Department of Transporation.
1998 - 2000: Selected for short list chosen by Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles for county libraries.
1997-1999: Selected for short list of 10 artists chosen for Metrorail projects, City of Los Angeles.
1997 City of Atlanta, pre-qualified short list of artists to be chosen for public art projects, 1997 onward Drive-Out Festival, Rome, 1997
1996 Finalist, MTA Hollywood Fence Project.
1994 Finalist, MTA Union Station Gateway Center Project B.
1992 - 93 Arts Recovery Grant, Los Angeles, CA.
1995 - 96 Art in the Workplace Advisory Committee, Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, CA.
1992 - 95 Artists Advisory Board, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, CA.
1992 Visions L.A. 1992, Commissioned by a Los Angeles Arts Recovery Grant. Composite painting and videotape in collaboration with the seniors of Oasis at the Harbor. This artwork is to be permanently on display at the San Pedro, California YWCA.
EDUCATION
MFA University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
BFA Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Yale Summer School of Art Fellowship, Norfolk, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Barbara Strasen: New, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2019 Everything Else: Recent Paintings by Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery LA
2019 Barbara Strasen: On Spec, Ethos Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
2017 Either And Or: New Paintings by Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Juxtapose: Paintings by Barbara Strasen, Ethos Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
2015 Layer by Layer, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2014 Solo Exhibition, TandM Art, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Flow and Glimpse, Los Angeles Airport Terminal 2, commissioned by Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airports
2012 All Manner Of Things: New work by Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2012 Layering: The Art Of Luisa Mesa And Barbara Strasen, Institute for Genetic Medicine Gallery, USC, Los Angeles
2012 Fairy Tales, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2012 Barbara Strasen, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2012 Jaggedart, London, UK
2010 Painted Lenticulars and Mylars, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Barbara Strasen, Building 98; Marfa, TX
2007 Individual Artist Project at London Art Fair, represented by Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2007 Colburn School of Music, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Commission for a lightwall lenticular installation in Austin, TX
2007 Pulse Art Fair, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
2006 Barbara Strasen, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY.
2006 Barbara Strasen, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Party Animals: Painted Lenticulars, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Barbara Strasen, Archeus Fine Art, London, U.K.
2004 Barbara Strasen, Discovery Museum; Bridgeport, CT
2004 SuperMegaMultiplex-o-rama: Barbara Strasen, Ambrosino Gallery; Miami, FL
2003 PickleSubSharkWeightMonkeySaucer, Lenticular installation at Pfizer Corp.,
2003 Sandwich, U. K. (Jan.-Mar. 2003) and Walton Oaks, U. K. (Apr.-Jun., 2003)
2002 Multiplex, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2001 Barbara Strasen, Institute For Genetic Medicine, Univ. of Southern California, LA
2001 Barbara Strasen, Hiromi Gallery, Bergamot Station; Santa Monica
1999 Barbara Strasen Claudia Carr Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Barbara Strasen, Galerie Neue Anstandigkeit, Berlin, Germany
1999 Barbara Strasen, Adamar Fine Art, Miami, FL
1999 Barbara Strasen, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
1998 Barbara Strasen, Galeria Soloblu, Milan, Italy
1998 Layers Of Perception, Budapest Galerie Budapest, Hungary
1997 Barbara Strasen, Forum Gallery, San Diego, CA
1996 Barbara Strasen, curated by Jay Belloli, Angel's Gate Cultural Center, LA, CA
1995 Barbara Strasen: Recent Work, L. A. Artcore Center, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Barbara Strasen, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Barbara Strasen, R&B Management Corporation, curated by Jillian Coldiron Fine Art, LA
1993 Paintings by Barbara Strasen, Lynn Crandall Art Services, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen,
Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami FL
1992 Recent Paintings, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
1991 A Proscenium Vision: Recent Paintings, D. P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, CA
1990 Barbara Strasen, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1990 Now and Then, Two window installations, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
1990 Contemporary Bestiary, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
1990 Barbara Strasen, Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Barbara Strasen: Masks, Zem Zwaite Gsicht Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1988 Barbara Strasen, Gallery Store, San Diego, CA
1986 Barbara Strasen, James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Barbara Strasen, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Barbara Strasen, International Women’s Center, San Diego, CA
1984 Barbara Strasen, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada
1983 Internal/External: Works by Barbara Strasen, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Marine Metaphors: The Ocean Dioramas of Barbara Strasen, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA
1982 Barbara Strasen, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA
1981 Barbara Strasen, Wooster College, Wooster, OH
1980 Ecosystem Allegories, Individual Project Installation, P.S. 1, New York, NY
1980 Desert Progression, Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Barbara Strasen, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Barbara Strasen: 3-D Paintings, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Layer Upon Layer, organized by Susanna Meiers, Curator of exhibitions El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2019 On The Rocks, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2019 Ethos Contemporary at Bistengo, Irvine, CA
2017 CoLA 20, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Tell Me a Story, La Quinta Museum; La Quinta, CA
2016 On The Edge, South Bay Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA,
2015 City of Los Angeles Fellowship Award Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Collector’s Circle Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2014 A Tall Tale: Folk, Fantasy & Fear in Art of the Fairy Tale, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York
2014 Collector's Circle Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2013 Cityscape III, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Colorful Antics, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 The Cityscape Show II, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Miami Red Dot Art Fair, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
2009 London Art Fair, Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2009 A Painter’s Dilemma, exhibitions and symposium, Stedman Art Gallery and Hopkins Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2008 Summer Group Show, Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2008 Stimulating Consumption, Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
2008 London Art Fair, represented by Jaggedart, London
2008 Art Now Fair Miami Beach, reprented by George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 L.A. Art Show, represented by George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Installation 816, Austin, TX
2008 Immigration: A Transfusion For The Body Politic, Barbara Strasen and Luis Moreno;
2008 IGM Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2008 Digital Art L.A., curated by Los Angeles Museum Of Art chief Curator Howard Fox
2007 L. A. Art Fair, represented by George Billis Gallery L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2006 Summer Dreaming, Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2007 Pulse Art Fair Miami, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 Bridge Art Fair Miami, represented by Jaggedart, London, U.K.
2005 Basel/Miami Art Fair, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
2005 Group Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Palm Beach Art Fair, represented by Archeus Fine Art, London, U.K.
2005 London Art Fair, represented by Archeus Fine Art, London, U.K.
2005 MiArt Contemporanea, Contemporary Art Fair, Milan, Italy
2005 Truth & Beauty, Q Gallery, Derby, U.K.
2004 Quiet, Isn’t It?, Archeus Fine Art, London
2004 Draw/Drawing, London Biennale 2004, London
2004 Basel/Miami Art Fair, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami
2003 Art Basel/ Miami, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 Truth & Beauty, organized by Wellcome Trust, touring schedule: Yard Gallery,
Nottingham, UK; Galeria Palacio, Porto, Portugal; Groningen University,
2003 Netherlands; Center For Life Sciences, Newcastle, UK
2003 Abstracting the Domestic Landscape, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
2003 About Face, El Camino College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Art Basel/ Miami, represented by Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 Accumulations, Islip Museum Of Art, Islip, NY
2002 Truth&Beauty, TwoTen Gallery, Wellcome Trust, London (through Mar. 21, 2003)
2002 Relationships, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2001 International Drawings, Six Artists, M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, New York
2001 Four Painters, Jernigan Wicker Gallery, San Francisco
2000 Delicate Tissue, organized by Jennifer Kotter for M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, NY
2000 The DNC Show, organized by Davis and Davis for Democratic National Headquarters, Los Angeles
2000 Happy Birthday Johannes, Gutenberg Pavillion, Mainz, Germany
2000 HMO/SUV/IPO, projection exhibition organized by Sidestreet Projects, Los Angeles
1999 Brust-Lust-Frust, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
1999 As Long As There Is Death, There Is Hope, FlashArt Museum, Trevi, Italy
1998 Contempo-Italianate, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1998 Five Artists, Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 House Party, Long Beach Museum Of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997 Generations, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1997 New Art Los Angeles, organized by Mary-Kay Lombino, Coast Federal Bank, Los Angeles
1997 Drive-Out Festival, Rome
1997 In Response, Marc Arranaga Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1996 Light Abberations, organized by Ann Tucker, University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1996 Codpiece, organized by Meg Linton, Griffin Linton Gallery, Venice, CA
1996 Alarm: Public and Private Security, former Lincoln Heights Jail, Los Angeles, CA
1996 About Face, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Collective Memory: Barbara Strasen and Nancy Webber, curated by Suzanna Meiers,
El Camino College, Torrance, CA
1995 People, Places, Things, Primary Objects Gallery, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
1995 Anniversary Exhibition, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 On Site At The Gate, (first prize), juried by Jay Belloli, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1994 The Green Show, curated by Wendy Adest, The Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Barbara Strasen and Roger Campbell, curated by Lynn Crandall, Art in the Workplace
1994 Gallery Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Cups, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Three Artists, South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
1993 Four of L.A.’s Best, L. A. Festival, Off the Beaten Path
1993 Reshaping L.A, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1992 The Living Object: The Art Collection of Ellen H. Johnson, Allen Memorial Art Museum,
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1989 Thick and Thin: Photographically Inspired Paintings, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
1988 Gallery Group, James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Animal Art: The Animal as a Conveyor and Medium of Art Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
1987 About Time, Islip Art Museum, Islip, Long Island, NY
1987 Group Show, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 To the Astonishing Horizon, curated by Peter Frank, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1984 New Approaches to Landscape, curated by Peter Frank, ne Penn Plaza, New York
1982 Choice: Four Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1980 U.S.A. Women Artists, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1980 System, Inquiry, Translation, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Dialogue/Discourse/Research, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1978 Artists Investigate the Environment, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
1978 Some San Diego Artists, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Group Show of Gallery Artists, Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Seascape/Landscape, Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Faculty Show, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1975 Biennal of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
REVIEWS
2000 Delicate Tissue at M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, Kim Levin, Village Voice, July 13 issue
1999 Barbara Strasen at Santa Ana College, ArtScene, April issue
1998 Contempo-Italianate: William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, November 13,
1998 Peter Frank, Los Angeles Weekly, November 13
1997 Layers On Layers: Barbara Strasen, Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union Tribune, November 27, 1997
1996 Solo Series: Works by Barbara Strasen, Marie Thiebault, and Kathryn Tubbs, Peter Frank, Long Beach Press-Telegram, March 13, 1996
1992 Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen,
Helen Kohen, Miami Herald, November 14, 1992
1991 A Procenium Vision: Recent Paintings by Barbara Strasen at D. P. Fong Gallery, Dorothy Burkhart, San Jose Mercury News, June 16, 1991
1990 Barbara Strasen: Installation at Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Dagblad, Eindhoven NL March 12, 1990; Ruimte, Vol. 7 January 1990
1990 A Contemporary Bestiary at Islip Museum, New York Times, April 1, 1990, Newsday, April
1989 Thick and Thin: Photographically Inspired Paintings, LA Times, September 19, 1989
1988 Barbara Strasen: Perception as a Mirror at Gallery Store, Los Angeles Times, May 30.
1987 A Shared Excellence at Karl Bornstein Gallery, Judith Margolis, Artweek Magazine, August 22.
1987 About Time at Islip Museum, New York Times, March 1.
1987 About Time at Islip Museum, Newsday, February 2.
1986 Barbara Strasen at James Turcotte Gallery, Colin Gardner, LA Times, June 13.
1983 Desert Notes, A review of the book published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Co-Evolution Quarterly, Spring.
1982 Barbara Strasen at San Diego State University, Elise Miller, LA Times February 8.
1982 Richard Reilly, San Diego Union February 22.
1980 System, Inquiry, and Translation at Touchstone Gallery, Carrie Rickey, Village Voice, June 23.
1980 System, Inquiry, and Translation at Touchstone Gallery, Shelley Rice, Artforum, September.
1980 Desert Progression at Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, Artspeak, Vol. I No. 7 February 28.
1980 Dialogue/Discourse/Research, A review of the book published in conjunction with Dialogue/Discourse/Research at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
1980 Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol.X No. 6 January-February.
1979 Dialogue/Discourse/Research at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art:
Richard Armstrong, Artforum, January 1980
William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1979
Priscilla Prey, Santa Barbara News and Review, Sepember 9, 1979
Richard Ames, Santa Barbara News-Press, Sepember 6, 1979
1978 Some San Diego Artists at Newspace Gallery:
Artweek Magazine, July 15, 1978
Artists Investigate the Environment, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park:
Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1978
1977 Group Show at Parsons-Dreyfuss Gallery, David Bourdon, Village Voice, June 13, 1977
1975 Barbara Strasen at San Jose State University, Artweek Magazine, October 6.
1975 Barbara Strasen at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Arts Magazine, June.
LECTURES
On My Work, Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Art Walk Auction, Los Angeles, CA
TV Interview with Judy Marshall, psychologist, Cable TV, Los Angeles, CA
Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen,
Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami FL
On My Work and Its Sources, Lecture at Steirischer Herbst, Palais Attems, Graz, Austria
On My Work, Lecture at Society for Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Dailiness, Panel Discussion at A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
On My Work, Lecture at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Artists Investigate the Environment, Panel Discussion at Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Talk and slide presentation, California Institute for Women, Chino-Corona, CA
Talk and slide presentation, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
ARTICLES
2019 Meet Barbara Strasen. VoyageLA Magazine, February 5, 2019.
2006 Artpick: Barbara Strasen at Billis Gallery, by Peter Frank. Los Angeles Times, October 11,
2004 Artist Plays Multiplication Game with Pictures, by Roni Feinstein. Florida Sun Sentinel, February 18.
2003 Design for the Sylmar Library by Suzanne Stephens. Architectural Record, November.
2004 Tra Verita e Bellezza? by Lucy Lippard. Galileo Giornale, April.
2004 Vertauschte Zeitebenen: Die Kalifornierin Barbara Strasen in der Galerie Neue
1999 Anstandigkeit, von Christian Saehrendt, Berliner Zeitung, June 23.
1995 Barbara Strasen by Norma Squires. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, June.
1994 The Paintings of Barbara Strasen: Visual Metaphors for Leadership and the New Science by Lynn Crandall. Southern California Business Journal, Los Angeles, CA, November.
1994 Barbara Strasen at Space by Judith Hoffberg. ArtScene, Los Angeles, CA, June.
1994 Barbara Strasen by Suzanne Muchnic. Visions Quarterly, Los Angeles, CA, Summer.
1986 Intervista a Barbara Strasen: Il Deserto Dentro Di Noi? by Giorgio Fernando Borges. MODO Magazine, Milan, Italy, November.
1986 Oblique Portraits by Sanda Agalidi. Artweek Magazine, June 28.
1983 Barbara Strasen by Caril Dreyfuss McHugh. Arts Magazine, December.
1980 A Arte Sequndo As Norte-Americanas by Lucy Lippard, O Estato de Sao Paolo, October 26.
1976 Why a Separate Women's Art? by Lucy Lippard, Artes Visuales, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Spring.
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Dilexi: A Gallery and Beyond by Laura Whitcomb, forward by Peter Frank, published by Norfolk Press.
2017 CoLA 20: Anniversary of the Los Angeles Master Artist Fellowship Program, book published by Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “All Manner Of Things” (2012), illustrated monograph with essays by Virginia Maksymowicz, Professor in the Department of Art & Art History, Franklin & Marshall College, and Blaise Tobia, Professor in the Department of Art & Art History, Wesphal College, Drexel University, Phila., PA
1987 Changing at Will Chapter of the book Animal Art: The Animal as a Conveyor and Medium of Art. Published by Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria.
1982 Women and Ecology Article published in HERESIES Issue 13, Winter 1982
1980 Desert Notes Art book published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1980
1975 The Immigrants, Article published in Journal of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, February.
CATALOGS
2015 Barbara Strasen, catalog of exhibition with essay, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
2015 City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship Award (C.o.L.A.), catalog and essays
2004 Truth & Beauty, catalog of exhibition, Palacio Nacional de Porto, Portugal.
2003 Truth & Beauty, catalog of exhibition, Wellcome Trust, London, U. K.
2000 The DNC Show, catalog of exhibition, Democratic National Headquarters, Los Angeles.
2000 Happy Birthday Johannes, catalog of exhibition at Gutenberg Pavillon, Mainz, Germany.
1999 Brust-Lust-Frust, catalog of exhibition at Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany.
1998 Contempo-Italianate: exhibition catalog, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount Univ, LA.
1992 The Collection of Ellen H. Johnson: Catalog of exhibition at Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH.
1992 Primordial Present/Contemporary Past: Paintings and Installation by Barbara Strasen, Essay by Susan Muchnic, Catalog of exhibition by Barbara Strasen at Wolfson Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College.
1991 A Procenium Vision: Recent Paintings by Barbara Strasen, catalog of exhibition at D. P. Fong Gallery, San Jose CA.
1990 Three Installations: Karen Shaw, Mary Fish, Barbara Strasen, Catalog of Three Installations: Karen Shaw, Mary Fish, Barbara Strasen at Het Apollohuis, Published by Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, NL.
1990 Catalog of A Contemporary Bestiary at Islip Museum. Published by Islip Museum, Islip, NY.
1985 Catalog of Barbara Strasen at Fisher Gallery, by Marie DeAlcuaz, Published by University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
1985 Feministe Toi-meme, Feministe Quand-meme Catalog of the exhibition at La Chambre Blanche, Published by La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada.
1982 Barbara Strasen Catalog of Barbara Strasen at San Diego State by Dennis Komac. Published by San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
1980 American Women Artists 1980 Catalog of U.S.A. Women Artists at Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Published by Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1980 Out of the Studio and Into the World: Social and Ecological Issues in Contemporary Art, Article by William Spurlock about the exhibition Dialog/Discourse/Research National Arts Guide, Vol II No. 7, March-April.
1979 Dialogue/Discourse/Research, Catalog of the show, essay by William Spurlock, and additional works by the artists. Published by Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Wellcome Trust Art Collection, London, U.K.
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX
Pfizer Corporation, Wilton Oaks, U.K.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Islip Museum Of Art, Islip, NY
Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
UBS Bank Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Best Products Collection, Richmond, VA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL
Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
University Of California Medical Campus, San Francisco, CA
Loyola Marymount Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Grubb & Ellis Collection, Austin and Houston, TX
Dan Rosenthal & Associates, Berkeley, CA
Andrea Stern, New York, NY
Ann Katherin Bonher, Zurich, Switzerland
Ruth and Marvin Sachner, Miami Beach, Florida
Sotiris Kyriakou, London, U.K.
Claudia Carr, New York, NY
Roni Feinstein, Boca Raton, FL
Jenny Okun, Beverly Hills, CA
Ross Crowe, Los Angeles, CA
Evelyn Amis, Miami, FL
Sylvia Libedinsky, London, U.K., and Buenos Aires, Argentina
Linda and Richard Chandler, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Joni and Monte Gordon, Los Angeles, CA
Dorothy and Herman Vogel, New York, NY
Elaine Reichek and George Engel, New York, NY
Silvia Elias, London, U.K.
Donald R. Gentner, Palo Alto, CA
Tom Hinson, Cleveland, OH
Charlotte Burri, Basel, Switzerland
Melinda Holden, San Diego, CA
Vivian and Morton J. Hornick, New York, NY
Caryl Dreyfuss McHugh, New York, NY
Anina Louis, Los Angeles, CA
Bobby Greenfield, Los Angeles, CA
Dennis Collwood, Los Angeles, CA
Lynn and Dr. Edward Crandall, Los Angeles, CA
Linda Kasei, Los Angeles, CA
Judith Martin, Redondo Beach, CA
Katherine Harris, Los Angeles, CA
Sabina and Santiago Corral, London, U.K.
Colburn Music School Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Permanent lenticular lightwall installation, Grubb & Ellis Corporation, Austin, TX
Emily Okun, Los Angeles, CA
Marcela McGrane and Bill Vogel, Los Angeles, CA
Allison Sampson, Santa Monica, CA
Susan and Louis Samonsky, Ventura, CA
Wendy Kelley, Santa Monica, CA
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1975-80
Instructor of Visual Arts, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA, 1972-75
Instructor of Visual Arts, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, 1971-72
HONORS
Panelist, filmed for CoLA 20: Anniversary of the LA Master Artist Fellowship Program, 2017
Panelist, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Visual Art Division, 1999, 2000-2, 2017
Board of Directors, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA 1995-1997
Arts Recovery Grant, Los Angeles 1992-93
Artist Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, 1976
Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California at San Diego, 1978
Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California at San Diego, 1977
Regents Creative Arts Grant, University of California at San Diego, 1977
Who's Who in the Arts, 1976, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art, 1968
CURATORIAL
Co-curator, with Mary-Kay Lombino (Assistant Curator, UCLA-Hammer Museum) of Contempo-Italianate, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, 1998
Art Within Art, organized by Barbara Strasen for Patrons of the Children, at The Box, Culver City, CA 1995
PUBLIC ART
2013-2017: Flow & Glimpse, commissioned lenticular installation at Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 2, ticketing and departure levels
2001-2003: Commission, awarded by L.A. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, for permanent, site-specific installation at new Sylmar Branch Library, Hodgetts and Fung, Architects; completion date: 2003
2000-2001 Selected for short list of artists for public art projects for Los Angeles Department of Transporation.
1998 - 2000: Selected for short list chosen by Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles for county libraries.
1997-1999: Selected for short list of 10 artists chosen for Metrorail projects, City of Los Angeles.
1997 City of Atlanta, pre-qualified short list of artists to be chosen for public art projects, 1997 onward Drive-Out Festival, Rome, 1997
1996 Finalist, MTA Hollywood Fence Project.
1994 Finalist, MTA Union Station Gateway Center Project B.
1992 - 93 Arts Recovery Grant, Los Angeles, CA.
1995 - 96 Art in the Workplace Advisory Committee, Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, CA.
1992 - 95 Artists Advisory Board, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, CA.
1992 Visions L.A. 1992, Commissioned by a Los Angeles Arts Recovery Grant. Composite painting and videotape in collaboration with the seniors of Oasis at the Harbor. This artwork is to be permanently on display at the San Pedro, California YWCA.
